Sunrise
Celebrating the first heirloom tomato of the season, as orange and golden as the summer sunrise!
Tag Archives: basil
Opening Sallies
Pickles, fritters, and a summery pasta dish that highlights zucchini in two ways: sauteed with red onion, and ground raw into an herby pistou that clings to the pasta with a splash of cream.
Compounding Assets
In the second week of the Preserve the Bounty Challenge, we preserved fruits and vegetables in fat and oil. My approach was three flavorful compound butters: basil, peach-praline, and tomato-garlic.
Storing and (Hopefully) Growing Basil
Some ways to store fresh basil from the summer bounty for short-term and long-term use, and this year's effort to grow basil from a cutting.
Thai Stuffed Zucchinis
A twist on the standard stuffed zucchini, this dish takes flavor inspiration from a Thai stir-fry of pork and basil, topped off with a fried egg.
Not Your Standard Rice Cakes
This recipe makes use of leftover risotto to fry up crispy-creamy risotto cakes, bursting with oozing mozzarella cheese and accompanied with a flavorful yogurt-based dip.
Peas and Carrots
Your standard peas and carrots are transformed into basil-scented pillowy pea gnocchi garnished with crispy shoestring carrots.
Pasta Pom and Popovers
This whole meal is composed of just a few pantry staples---the pasta's pomodoro sauce is made with canned tomatoes, ricotta cheese and dried basil, and the popovers just use flour, eggs, milk, and Parmesan cheese.
Paul’s Party, Part 2: Oven-Dried Tomatoes
Oven-roasted tomatoes and garlic-herb goat cheese, leftover from catering a friend's going-away party, see new life in this easy pasta dish.
Tilapia: Variations on a Theme
Tasty tilapia from Asia to Italy: Five-spice tilapia with ponzu sauce and veggie-fied garlic noodles; and tilapia piccata over sun-dried tomato couscous.
Angel Hair with Tomato-Mascarpone Sauce
A quick pasta dish comprised primarily of pantry staples.
Costco-sized Salmon
Salmon roasted under a simplified variation of the classic pesto Genovese; it uses baby spinach for bulk and omits the pine nuts and Parmesan.
Pork Ricotta Meatballs
Slow-cooked pork and ricotta meatballs pack a huge flavor punch.